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...Crimson swept the doubles slate at the 13-team tournament, as Peter Palandjian and Dave Clark (A-flight), Hank Parichabutr and Mark Leschley (C-flight) and John Steinbaugh and Mino Capasello (D-flight) all triumphed. Leschley, a freshman, also took the C-flight singles crown...
Earle's tunes do not have the sentimentality of mainstream country. They have older echoes: the scarred spirit and lonesome heart of Hank Williams, the grittiness of Johnny Cash, the Bull Run rhythmic charge of another Texas boy, Buddy Holly, who came out of a tradition that was as much old country as new rock 'n' roll. Rockabilly was the name for it, but somehow the country strains of Holly always got slighted. Rock claimed him exclusively -- and unfairly. Playing in that same territory, Earle redresses some of the balance...
Festivities move to the Meadowlands Sports Complex on Sunday, as the likes of Muhammad Ali, Bobby Orr, Billie Jean King, Mary Lou Retton and Hank Aaron parade around the stadium. There will be a gymnastics exhibition and skating by Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill and Scott Hamilton. A planned tug-of-war between the New York Jets and Giants football teams seems to have been a casualty of David Wolper's unpredictable kitsch detector, which has been on alert since recent criticisms of the weekend's rampant schlockiness...
...Hank Williams Jr.'s rendition of the red-neck anthem If Heaven Ain't a Lot Like Dixie (Then I Don't Want to Go) should be spitting out of your car radio as you make the more than 150-mile drive from Pigeon Forge to Fort Mill, S.C. It will put you in the mood for Heritage USA, Televangelist Jim Bakker's hotel and convention complex that attracts 5 million of the faithful each year. Cynics call the place Six Flags over Jesus, but you will be disappointed if you come expecting a Holy Roller coaster or a guided...
Darmouth took the last two singles contests to bring the team score to 4-2 going into the doubles matches. The Crimson's Darryl Laddin lost a three-setter to Jeff Hawkins at number five, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Harvard freshman Hank Parichabutr, playing his first ever Ivy singles match, dropped a 6-4, 6-2 decision to Desmond Hussey...